The experiments proceed slowly. At first a certain amount of patience was needed, but I soon found that matters went better when I carried on several experiments simultaneously.
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Gregor Mendel
Augustinian friar born in 1822 who discovered heredity's laws through pea-plant experiments. Ignored in life, his work was rediscovered in 1900 as the foundation of genetics.
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